Why do we age? The answer to this question is critical to our ability to prevent and treat highly age-related diseases such as cancer and heart disease that now cause the deaths of most people in the . . . . .

These note are intended to give background material in mathemat-
ical population genetics and also, in part, to form the background
for some of the material given by other lecturers.Some standard ge . . . . .

The current world biodiversity consists of an inestimable amount of living forms, that at all levels, from genes to biomes, from individuals to populations, from species to communities, are in constan . . . . .